Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — FINDS $165 IN MICE NEST [ARTICLE]

FINDS $165 IN MICE NEST

New York Man Recovers Money Saved by Wife Who Died . Several Years Ago. Port Jervis, N. Y. —James Babcock was hunting about his cellar fdr a piece of stove pipe when he found hidden in an opening in the wall an old coffee pot, filled with loose paper, in which mice had made a nest. In cleaning the vessel he was surprised to find several pay envelopes he had received from the Delaware & Hudson company when he was watchman for that corporation some years ago. They were yellow with age, but in each he found a bill in a good state of preservation, and on counting them found they amounted to $165. The money evidently had been saved by his wife from his monthly wages. She died 12 years ago, and S6OO was found deposited by her in a New York city bank, which she had set aside from her husband’s earnings. N ■"